Why Portland & Venezuela Are In Washington’s Crosshairs

By Becca Renk on October 16, 2025

Portland, Oregon was my sanctuary as a teenager. I was a weird kid, a label I mostly embraced. But being different  in my hometown rural north Idaho was exhausting. When I needed to recharge myself, I would drive the nine hours to Portland to bask in the city that accepted me just as I was. Maybe that is the Trump administration’s problem with Portland today: it is literally a sanctuary city. (more…)

Trump’s Military Escalation Against Venezuela Repeats the Iraq War Blueprint

By Manolo De Los Santos October 15, 2025

The mood in the Caribbean grows increasingly tense, as the United States intensifies its military threats. Beneath the deceptive shroud of the “war on drugs,” the United States is actively executing a blueprint for military intervention in Venezuela, employing lethal force and projecting power in a manner that legal institutions and regional leaders have condemned as a profound threat to international order. This aggression is not a law enforcement operation; it is the negation of law, a neocolonial revival of the Monroe Doctrine, designed to shatter the sovereignty of Venezuela, seize control of the world’s largest oil reserves, and install a compliant regime. (more…)

Venezuela Closes Embassies In Norway and Australia

October 14, 2025

On Monday, Venezuela’s Foreign Ministry announced that it has begun the first phase of a comprehensive restructuring of its foreign service, ordering the closure of its embassies in the Kingdom of Norway and Australia.“As part of the strategic reallocation of resources, the closure of the embassies in the Kingdom of Norway and Australia has been ordered,” the ministry said in a statement. (more…)

Imperial Double Standards: Warfare for Venezuela and Welfare for Argentina

By Francisco Dominguez, Roger D. Harris and John Perry on October 14, 2025

Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution has been in the vanguard of the Global South. In contrast, President Javiar Milei’s government in Argentina represents the logical, though absurd, consequence of extreme neoliberalism, which he calls “anarcho-capitalism.” (more…)

A Revolutionary in Politics and Photography

By David Bacon on October 1, 2025

Jeannette Ferrary, a fine photographer whose work has a rare and brilliant sense of humor, drew my attention to the obituary for Tina Modotti in the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/obituaries/tina-modotti-overlooked.html).  I’m glad that the NYT series of obits on women who were ignored when they died chose to do one for Modotti.  The author, Grace Linden, deserves credit for getting acknowledgement in the Times for this radical hero, 83 years after her death.  Linden gives a good account of the work she did as a photographer in Mexico in the 1920s, where she is regarded as a founder of Mexican socially radical photojournalism and documentary work. (more…)

Continental Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba Ends with Demand to End Genocidal Blockade, Support for Venezuela

By Emir Olivares Alonso on October 14, 2025 from Mexico City

Dozens of delegates from 35 countries demanded that the United States government and Congress end the “genocidal” economic, commercial, and financial blockade of Cuba. (more…)

Open Letter from Pérez Esquivel to María Corina Machado – from Nobel to Nobel

By Adolfo Pérez Esquivel on October 14, 2025

I send you greetings of peace and goodwill, which humanity and the peoples living in poverty, conflict, war, and hunger so desperately need. This open letter is to express and share some thoughts with you. (more…)

Fidel, the Art of Words: “Enough Words! We Need Action!”

October 12, 2025 from Havana

On October 12, 1979, in the “20th Year of Victory” for the Cuban people, Fidel returned to the same United Nations chamber where two decades earlier he had delivered his legendary four-hour speech, the longest in the history of this international organization. On this occasion, he addressed the audience as president of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to present the results of its Sixth Summit, which had just been held in Havana. Would the Cuban leader be able to deliver a speech as significant as the first time? (more…)